Posts tagged Courtland Milloy
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DC’s most bike-friendly corner: 15th and L
Look at this beautiful photo. Two cycletracks meet at a street corner, bike boxes and green paint flow in every direction, and a bikeshare station sits in the background. It’s almost Dutch. Almost. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What we learned about bicycling
Milloy rides; “We don’t ticket our own”; Transformation and affordability; Inner Harbor 3.0; One step closer to ridesharing; Designing for mental health; Vancouver’s baby boom; DIY toll road; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: By the numbers
Gray vetoes budget; Pedestrian barrier for Route 1; How to pay for Phase Two?; Region falls behind in job growth; Buy DC land, build affordable housing; Housing trouble in Chinatown; Milloy doesn’t back down; Like riding a bike; Can’t buy booze in New Hampshire; And…. Keep reading…
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Bicyclists politely explain that they’re not terrorists (and neither are their small children)
A group of bicyclists rode to the Washington Post headquarters yesterday in a polite protest against Courtland Milloy’s recent column attacking bicyclists and the paper’s decision to publish it. Jay Mallin made a video of the event: Keep reading…
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Links roundup: Clash with Courtland over bike bullying
The DC blogosphere is still buzzing over Courtland Milloy’s column yesterday calling bicyclists “bullies” and “terrorists.” If you’ve been offline for the past 18 hours or so, here’s a lightning-round roundup of the internet’s response to Milloy. Empathy and understanding: David Alpert responds with an entreaty for… Keep reading…
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We need empathy and understanding, around bicycling, gentrification, and much more
Like many parts of our nation where many different people coexist, there are divides in the Washington region. Like many places that are changing, groups of people can direct resentment or intolerance at each other. In many neighborhoods, new, more affluent residents are moving in, disrupting an existing social fabric that endured when many turned their backs on such communities. Keep reading…
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Bike lanes and jobs are not mutually exclusive
Bike lanes have lately become a proxy for all things that benefit affluent residents. But juxtaposing bike infrastructure with a program like job training distorts reality, because bicycle infrastructure costs a miniscule amount compared to job programs, and actually helps poor residents gain better access to jobs. Last week, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy… Keep reading…
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Transportation birtherism runs rampant this week
Are changes to parking policy a “war on cars” or a scheme to “force people out of their cars”? That’s about as preposterous as saying President Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii, but both claims grow from some real underlying angst in parts of the populace. In national politics, the 2008 election created a lot of trepidation among some segments… Keep reading…
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The smart way to use traffic cameras
The DC government has set a clear priority: It doesn’t want anyone to die in a traffic crash on its streets. Who would disagree with that? Keep reading…
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A color-blind Montgomery County is still a myth
Supporters of Montgomery County’s proposed teen curfew say we shouldn’t worry about racial profiling. But in this newly majority-minority jurisdiction, race is the one thing we should be talking about. In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Montgomery County police officer Robert Carter explained that cops don’t see race: “I understand that some… Keep reading…